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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter II, "Mother and Son" Pages 65-81.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound does the story end with?
(a) Coffee brewing.
(b) A cricket chirping.
(c) Miki singing.
(d) The clocks chiming.

2. What is Kyoko's younger brother's name?
(a) Yukio.
(b) Akihito.
(c) Masaru.
(d) Haruto.

3. When Gohtaro travels into the past, what does the reader realize about the young man whom Gohtaro and Shuichi thought should be a rugby player?
(a) The young man is Kazu's father.
(b) The young man is a ghost.
(c) The young man is Nagare.
(d) The young man is Kaname's son.

4. How does Kyoko react to Nagare's suggestion about a present for Kiyoshi's wife?
(a) She laughs and tells Nagare he does not understand women.
(b) She dismisses it as completely unhelpful.
(c) She praises it effusively, saying she wishes her husband thought like Nagare.
(d) She politely suggests a slight improvement in the plan.

5. In her lyrics on page 56, to what does Miki compare Nagare?
(a) A sputtering kettle.
(b) A barnyard smell.
(c) A long fall night.
(d) A farting insect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kyoko's objection to Gohtaro's plan to travel back into the past?

2. What is the first thing that Shuichi wants to know once he understands that Gohtaro has come from the future?

3. What did Kinuyo sometimes send Yukio in her care packages?

4. Who sings a song about crickets in the opening of "Mother and Son"?

5. How were Shuichi and his wife killed?

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